I bought a Robobloq, I understand it's not the place but I can't find anywhere else to look for help

Mega2560 · 2019-01-24 21:27:26 UTC

I’m gonna be honest. I bought a kit from the competition. This was a reason to get a complete kit quickly and at a good price… I hope you understand this.

Getting to the point, I bought a Robobloq Qoopers, it brings a modified Mega2560 similar to the Auriga, but with a couple of sensors less. My original idea is to use this as an interface and control it with a Rpi3.

In this way, I start to investigate and I see that the Python support in Robobloq is not fully supported. Basically it is “embedded” in its own IDE (I did some reverse engineering, and it works under a Nodejs socket and http server that listen and interface to the Python code that one can put in the IDE) so it doesn’t have a direct Python support at least for the time being.

I kept researching and found https://github.com/Makeblock-official/PythonForMegaPi , the information and software I was just needing !

In order to find a quick solution it occurred to me to maybe use this software with the Qmind Plus board, being both boards based on Mega2560, I think maybe it could work… Until the manufacturer or the community advances with a python support.

Schemas for Mega2560 Qmind Plus: https://github.com/Robobloq2018/Open-source-hardware/tree/master/K1%20Qmind%20Plus

Finally the question is: Could it be dangerous to flash the MegaPi firmware in Robobloq Qmind Plus? Could I damage any hardware components?

I hope with a little hope for help.
Thanks
Best regards

chuckmcknight · 2019-01-25 06:09:29 UTC

Only question I can answer is that the way the Arduino boards (Uno, Mega, etc.) work is that you load your program into memory and that is all that is in memory. In theory (where everything works) uploading any Arduino code compiled for the Mega2560 is the same. Not sure about the Python support but a quick Google search turned up MicroPython as an option and several links on the Arduino site about using Python with the Mega2560. The terms I used were python and mega2560. You’ll still have to determine what pins are being used for the attached devices and anything else associated with parameters.

Good luck!

Mega2560 · 2019-01-25 16:09:06 UTC

Thanks a lot for the information, and the recommend of MicroPython

Mega2560 · 2019-01-26 14:35:34 UTC

I tried the MegaPi Firmware but without success…

Any can help with correct copy PIN settings, from original code to the new ?

https://github.com/Robobloq2018/Robobloq

to

github.com

Makeblock-official/Makeblock-Libraries/blob/master/src/MeMegaPi.h

/**
 * \par Copyright (C), 2012-2016, MakeBlock
 * \brief   Driver for MegaPi board.
 * @file    MeMegaPi.h
 * @author  MakeBlock
 * @version V1.0.5
 * @date    2016/09/23
 * @brief   Driver for MegaPi board.
 *
 * \par Copyright
 * This software is Copyright (C), 2012-2016, MakeBlock. Use is subject to license \n
 * conditions. The main licensing options available are GPL V2 or Commercial: \n
 *
 * \par Open Source Licensing GPL V2
 * This is the appropriate option if you want to share the source code of your \n
 * application with everyone you distribute it to, and you also want to give them \n
 * the right to share who uses it. If you wish to use this software under Open \n
 * Source Licensing, you must contribute all your source code to the open source \n
 * community in accordance with the GPL Version 2 when your application is \n
 * distributed. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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Thanks in advance

system · 2019-02-25 14:35:40 UTC

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